Yamato,akiller?

[hatchet]

I am getting quite freaked by all your experiences. Last month just put in like 35 yamatoes into the tank. Some super king size ones. I am getting paranoid, some 20 bee shrimps are not around, dun know is it they are hiding or consumed. My whole tank is a hiding ground, tempted to remove everything in the tank to see whether are the bee shrimps alive.
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[benny]

The only way you can put your suspicions to rest is to check. I also saw with my own eyes how a large glass/ghost shrimp yanked a small snall off the blade of a grass, turn it around and ate it. Maybe I do have mutant shrimps.

[vinz]

Benny, you sure you have yamatos and not glass/ghost shrimps? Man, you've got the most aggro yamatos I've heard of. Sounds like they evolved from gatherers to hunters in you tank.

[Allen_1971]

I think glass/ghost shrimps are predatory... though yamato I'm not so sure... I believe juggler has also seen the glass shrimp eating snails...

[benny]

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On 11/22/2002 2:38:39 PM

Benny, you sure you have yamatos and not glass/ghost shrimps? Man, you've got the most aggro yamatos I've heard of. Sounds like they evolved from gatherers to hunters in you tank.
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Yup. I have about 20 yamatos and 1 glass/ghost shrimp (got mixed in with the malayan that I bought) living with about 300 malayan shrimps. In addition, there is 4 wood shrimps.

To be honest, I never thought that the Yamatos are so agressive and predatory. Now trying to find small ones instead. But heard that pencil fishes also eat algae so may get those instead of Yamatos.

[PeterGwee]

Wah Lau!..getting worried...wonder where one of my ottos went to..missing for quite a while and no body was found...[]

[benny]

Just for clarification, the Chocolate Gourami that was attached was only 2 cm and the oto was 4 cm. Most of my Yamatos are 6 cm and above (cos couldn't catch the small ones from the LFS tank).